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...Amidst discussion of a controversial bill that threatened to derail the council into what one member called “chaos,” the Undergraduate Council (UC) inched closer Monday night to resolving the future of its Campus Life Committee (CLC). And while the CLC’s future still remains in doubt, many council members spoke out Monday against dissolving the committee and reducing the size of the council. Council leaders said last week that the creation of a new College-funded social programming board has made the restructuring of CLC inevitable. CLC reform was discussed last...
...writings and discourses and other responsibilities, he wonders "whether it is not all far too much." Meditating on the contemporary Pope, Ratzinger concludes: "The sheer quantity of personal contacts imposed on him by his relationship with the universal Church; the decisions that have to be made; and the necessity, amidst all this, of not losing his own contemplative footing, being rooted in prayer - all this poses an enormous dilemma...
...problem.Although the vigil this year conflicted with Maundy Thursday, precluding the participation of a number of observant Christians, myself included, it’s reported to have been an impassioned and chilling event, which escaped the trivialization it has encountered in years past.Outside the Science Center last week, amidst the Clothesline Project, a collection of t-shirts with jostling messages from rape victims written on them, one could still find the tangential leftover. The most vile read: “‘Your mother gave you up for adoption because she wanted you to have a better life?...
...lead actor. Tim Allen single-handedly destroyed “The Shaggy Dog,” dragging down the excellent performances of his supporting cast. In “The Wild,” Sutherland overcomes the mediocrity of his fellow actors—one fearsome roar amidst a din of discordant drivel...
...course, without street fights there would be no Communist China (nor a United States of America, for that matter), but authoritarian regimes birthed amidst the rubble of revolutions tend to be eminently capable of overlooking this aspect of their conception...